GreenGauge Homes at Lingwood

This development of 15 homes, the first GreenGauge Homes scheme, was built on an exception site and achieved an Ecohomes 2006 rating of ‘Excellent’ and Code 4 of the Code for Sustainable Homes. It is a Constructing Excellence Demonstration Project and received a CPRE Norfolk Award in 2008.

Lingwood has been developed to evaluate the effectiveness of a variety of technologies directly with real tenants. A control group of super-insulated houses is compared with a group with solar collectors and PVs, a group with sunspaces and mechanical heat recovery and a group with ground-source heat pumps and under floor heating.